Blue Copper Christmas

Hello friends! Just popping in for a super quick post today. It's been a busy week so far. I hope those of you who participated in the Our Daily Bread designs blog hop enjoyed yourself. And don't forget there is still the Show Us the Shimmer challenge that ODBd is hosting through Nov 15.

Today I have another Christmas card using the new Luke 2:11 set. Kelley sent some gorgeous new SEI papers to try out and I couldn't resist doing this poinsettia in blue with copper accents.

Hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!

Card Supplies: Stamps - Luke 2:11, Linen Bkgrd; Ink - Versamark, Antique Linen, Bashful Blue; Paper - Chocolate Textured, Bashful Blue, Vanilla, Shimmer Copper, SEI foil patterns Rosice & Michov; Accessories - Metallic Ribbon, Gold Glimmer Mist, Copper EP, Glitter Flourishes by Making Memories, Pop dots; Techniques - Heat Embossing, Sponging.

ODBd Blop Hop ~ Show Us the Shimmer!

Happy November everyone! Welcome to the Our Daily Bread Designs November Release Blog Hop! If you came here from Deb's Blog, you are in the right place! If you just happened upon my blog but didn't start at the ODBD Blog, you can start there to join in on the fun! The reason is that there are secret words hidden along the hop which you need to collect along with the name of each Designer. When you have them all, you will return to the ODBD Blog and leave a comment saying you visited all the blogs and a special email address will be given so you can email Grace with the secret words you found and in the correct order to reveal a phrase. That's all you have to do for the chance to win the ENTIRE NEW RELEASE for this month! And the three AWESOME new Christmas sets could be yours! What a fabulous prize and just in time for the holidays! Oh and guess what ~ there's also an ODBd challenge for you to play in and win another great prize. More on that below....

For this month's challenge, Kelley sent the Design Team some totally gorgeous shimmery SEI papers along with a bottle of Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist. And our goal - create a holiday card that shimmers and shines! So I have two cards to show you today using the Blessed Christmas set. On this pink, brown and green themed card I stamped the poinsettia in Antique Linen and the verse over it in Walnut Stain. The SEI nonparelis ornament paper has a glossy glaze on the shapes and I placed some assorted Dew Drops over a few of the circle shapes for added dimension. After putting all the layers together and popping a few up I misted the front with Honey Dew Glimmer Mist. It added a very light greenish shimmer to the main image. I added the green ricrac and paper poinsettia to finish off the card.

Card Supplies: Stamps - Blessed Christmas; Ink - Antique Linen, Walnut Stain; Paper - Pretty in Pink, Garden Green, Chocolate Chip, White, SEI nonparelis print; Accessories - Ricrac, Assorted Dew Drops, Paper Poinsettia, Rhinestone Brad, Honey Dew Glimmer Mist, Corner Rounder, Pop Dots; Techniques - Sponging, Glimmer Mist.

This next card I created for today's Featured Stamper challenge. I chose this pretty Christmas card to case. My card turned out being almost 6x6 inches and I changed the stamps and added a few more layers and embellishments. For the music print I used ODBd Amazing Grace Hymn stamp, distressing the edges and sponging over it for an aged look. I watercolored and cut out the poinsettia, misted it in Gold GM and then popped it up off the hymn. In the center of the flower I used a bit of Diamond Stickles and a clear Dew Drop. Once I put all the layers together with the foiled SEI marzipan print I misted the whole card several times using the gold. In the corners I used large clear Dew Drops and along the embossed scallop I used clear rhinestones. A bit of velvet ricrac in the corners and a red bow finished it off nicely. :)

~Here's a closeup of the Gold Glimmer Mist.

Card Supplies: Stamps - Blessed Christmas, Amazing Grace Hymn; Ink - Sepia, Walnut Stain, Antique Linen, Assorted SU reinkers, Jet Black; Paper - Real Red, Garden Green, Textured Chocolate, White, SEI marzipan foil print; Accessories - Ricrac, Ribbon, Clear Dew Drops, Clear Rhinestones, Diamond Stickles, Gold Glimmer Mist, Martha Stewart Embossed Scallop Punch, Pop Dots; Techniques - Watercoloring, Sponging, Distressing.

I hope you enjoyed these two shimmery Christmas creations! I'm so pleased that you stopped by! Now from here you need to go visit Chris and after her head back to the ODBd Blog. And before you go, here' something you need to know - my secret word is "Lord!" Make sure you are keeping a list of all the DT Names with their secret word next to them and email that to Grace at the address given on the ODBD Blog at the end of the hunt! You have until 8 PM EST on Wed. Nov. 3rd to email the secret word/words each designer had! Remember...Once SUPER HAPPY STAMPER will win the entire November release!

And now about the November ODBd Show Me the Shimmer Challenge...
The challenge this month is to make a Holiday Card and make it SHIMMER! Think of all the many ways you can do that so this is a super easy and fun challenge. You can use anything from Shimmery Designer Papers and Glimmer Mists to Shimmerz and Twinkling H2O's.... i could go on but you probably get the picture. Just make sure it's also a Christmas/Holiday card. Everyone is invited to play along! You DO NOT have to use Our Daily Bread designs stamps to win, but if you have them, we LOVE to see them!!! Link your card to the Latest Challenge Thread on the ODBD Blog by Nov. 15th by 8 PM EST. There will be a $30.00 Store Credit given to the winner of this challenge! So get busy and show us the SHIMMER!!!

Candy Hog

Today's card comes to you from my Splitcoaststampers Dirty Dozen days! Thought I'd sneak it out of the vault for ya'll to see. It's an all-time favorite of mine and it always makes me snicker when I see it. Isn't it just FUN!!! When I got the idea I couldn't find a template for the web, so I grabbed the scissors and a folded piece of black cardstock and just went for it! And it was one of those rare times when it came out probably better than I was hoping. :) I then free-handed the web lines with a white gel pen and went over them again with glitter pen. The edges and center area are sponged with white craft ink. That lil' candy hog is from the old Stampin' Up set Cute as a Bug. He's embossed in black along with the sentiment from American Art Stamps. The candy pile is assorted Jolie sticker embellishments.

Hope you enjoyed this little fun friend! Thanks for visiting! :)

Card Supplies: Stamps - Cute as a Bug, American Art Stamps; Paper - Black, Pumpkin Pie, WW, Pattern by Colorbok; Ink - Versamark, White Craft, Pumpkin Pie, Yoyo Yellow; Accessories - White Gel Pen, Glitter Pen, Candy Embellishment pieces, Black EP, Pop Dots, Stickles, Ribbon; Techniques - Sponging, Heat Embossing, Shape.

Christmas Peek!

Wow! Can ya'll believe it's going to be November on Sunday? Thanksgiving plans are being made and then it will soon be time to break out the Christmas tree and decorations! Before ya know it the holiday season it going to be full swing! Are ya ready for the kicker - Only 58 more sleeps til Christmas!!! I don't know about you but that means I really need to buckle down and get busy on making our Christmas cards! Yikes!

I've made only a few so far but there are many more to go! I thought I share this rather quick and pretty Christmas card I created using one of the new November sets from Our Daily Bread designs, along with a Flower Soft topper and Vintage Christmas Flower Soft. this card is previewing a sentiment from the upcoming Christmas set, Luke 2:11. I embossed it in copper and added the Vintage Christmas FS around the candles using the Flower Soft glue. I love the way it turned out! The more I play around with Flower Soft the more colors I want of it!! And the printed Flower Soft cards are prefect for using sentiments and pulling of a quick but great looking card. :) The printed Flower Soft card is layered on Chocolate Chip and Garden Green and popped up off the stripes - Peppermint Bark Mint foil paper by SEI. Gorgeous stuff! :) I used the Martha Stewart Embossed Scallop Edge punch along the bottom and mounted it to a Garden Green card base. So what do you think? Thanks for stopping in today!

Fun Times!!!

For the past week, the NC State Fair has been entertaining many here in the area. We ventured out last weekend and had a fabulous time enjoying all the sights, sounds and smells that the fair has to offer! I thought I'd share a few of my favorite pictures from our evening out. :) Enjoy!

~A working grist mill

~Andrew & I, snuggling in the big chair!

~Andrew hanging with the "roadcone monster"!
~Wouldn't be the fair without the classic carousel!
~ Gotta ride the Ferris Wheel!
~Andrew rode this for the first time ever this year!
~One last look across the lake before leaving!

A Sock Hop & Senor Buho

Happy Sunday all! I'm just popping in to share what I created for the weekly Featured Stamper challenge. This week it's Rachelhope13! I found this sweet lil' Christmas card in her gallery and dug out a House Mouse stamp and some older Basic Grey Christmas patterns. I don't think I've used this stamp in years! Come to think of it I may have never used it 'cept for playing around with coloring it - no cards. Since my image is a bit larger then the one Rachel used, I ended up was a 6x5.5 inch card. I watercolored the mice and then spritzed the image with gold glimmer mist. The snowflakes are from Making Memories and it's hard to see just like the glimmer mist but the red ribbon is all sparkly. And now I think I'm gonna have to use this stamp more often, it's just darling! Well then again all House Mouse stamps are absolutely darling ya know! :)


Card Supplies: Stamps - HM Sock Hop, AYC1; Paper - White, Real Red, Garden Green, Chocolate, Basic Grey Fruitcake; Ink - Assorted SU reinkers, Jet Black, Walnut Stain; Accessories -Snowflakes, Ribbon, Pop Dots; Techniques - Sponging, Watercoloring, Distressing.

And before I go here's a card that I never got around to posting last week. This is Senor Buho! I made him for last week's Inspiration Challenge, using these tiles from the website that Stef selected. No stamping to this sweet owl, just all punches and circle cutters!

Card Supplies: Stamps - N/A; Paper - Textured Brown & Shimmery Mustard, Chocolate Chip, Cool Caribbean, More Mustard; Ink - Walnut Stain, Tempting Turquoise, More Mustard; Accessories - Assorted Corner Punched, CM circle Cutter, Ricrac, Primas, Rhinestones, Pop dots; Techniques - Sponging, Shaped card.

Thanks for stopping by! Have a fabulous day! :)

Playing with Indian Summer

Happy Saturday! It's warm here today with a few sprinkles. Hoping it holds off for our plans for a little later. So I'm making a quick post today as I've got a few more autumn inspired cards to share with ya'll! I picked up some of the beautiful Indian Summer paper by Basic Grey recently and just got a chance to play around with it. Love the rich gorgeous colors it has!

Here's a quick 4 by 4 inch card using one of the Indian Summer patterns and a few velvet flowers. The verse is from With Heartfelt Sympathy. I paired the pattern paper with Always Artichoke and More Mustard and dug out some Dew Drops from the Island Blossom bottle.

I made this card for today's Inspiration Challenge, using this scarf as my inspiration. I pulled out one of my all-time favorite verses of comfort, Rev. 21:4, and stamped it in Sepia. Since my velvet flowers were already out from using some on the other card I selected two and paired them with a gold Prima leaf and the glittered chipboard flourish from Making Memories. And I put my new Martha Stewart embossing punch to good use again. :)

Thanks for waddling in! If the weather holds we're off with friends to carve pumpkins, roast hot dogs and s'mores and venture out in the wagon for a hayride! :)

Autumn Colors

Ahhh... Fall is finally hitting us here in North Carolina! The leaves started changing into their beautiful fall colors this week! We've been enjoying some wonderful reds, oranges and yellows! And of course that inspired my most recent color palette for stamping! When I was working the PA stamp show with Kelley earlier this month, I snagged some gorgeous foil printed SEI paper from off of her! It's a rich warm brown with a coppery orange leaf/flower print running through it. It's called Rosice and it's got a great coordinating print on the reverse. I pulled out several fall colored paper and got busy!

This pumpkin pie card is one of those simple layouts that I find challenging to pull off. I resisted the urge to stamp all over the layers and kept to something a little more basic and clean looking as far as the patterns and embellishments go. The images are from ODBd's new set With Heartfelt Sympathy and the sentiment from the Praying for You set. That sweet little dragonfly is cutout, popped up and covered the Angel Wings Shimmerz. I paired the Rosice pattern with rust, mustard, pumpkin pie, and chocolate chip. The brads are copper and the main image is popped under the pumpkin pie layer.
On this card I used summer sun as my cardbase and mixed the Rosice pattern with chocolate chip, mustard, rust and a flocked pattern by K&Company. The cattails image is lightly stamped behind the verse, both from the With Heartfelt Sympathy set. The orange Dew Drops are from the Flame bottle.

Well I'm off to clean up some of my stamp area and then hopefully do some more stampin later tonight! Hope your weekend is grand! Thanks for stopping by! :)

Autumn Original & Winter Sympathy

Hello all! I know I promised an Autumn card the other day and I just didn't get a chance to post it until today and now ya get it along with a winter card!! It's been a crazy and trying past few days. Andrew was laid off from his job due to cut backs and so well, that just pretty much sucks, ya know! He's actually been looking for a new job the past few weeks because the place where he was working hasn't been doing the best. He's started a part time job that he loves and they are wanting to hire him now for a better full time position but they have to wait for approval to do so and they have no idea as to how long it might take. So all we can do at the moment is pray that it won't take very long to get approved!

Now onto some cards! It got chilly here the past few days and I felt the need to break out a few snowflakes! I took the scene from the With Deepest Sympathy by ODBd and tried to create a wintry look with it. After lightly watercoloring it, I clear embossed the whole image with an added bit of sparkle. Then I touched up the trees and water with some Polar White Flower Soft. I layered the image on several different shades of blue along with a snowflake pattern by Frances Meyer and added the glittery diecut snowflakes by Making Memories. When it was all done I misted the whole card with Marshmallow Glimmer Mist. The Marshmallow color is a Limited Edition Winter Color for 2009! What do you think? :)

Wintry Card Supplies: Stamps - With Deepest Sympathy by ODBd; Ink - Jet Black, Assorted Reinkers, Night of Navy; Paper - Bashful Blue, Brocade Blue, Navy, White, Snowflake by Frances Meyer; Accessories - Diecut Snowflakes, Polar White Flower Soft, Clear Embossing Powder, Glitter, Ribbon, Corner Round, Labels One Nestie, Marshmallow Glimmer Mist, Pop Dots; Techniques - Watercoloring, Sponging, Heat Embossing.

And now here's the Autumn inspired card. :) Just this week we are starting to see the leaves change around us! Very exciting! I pulled out some flocked & shimmery Heidi Grace designs papers and patterned chipboard for this card. The stamped flower is from the Stampin' Up set Doodle This. It's an old favorite! The fall leaves are Prima and I picked up that giant rhinestone brad in a 12-pack at Michael's. The lil' dots on the flower leaves are touched up with copper stickles and the finished card was sprayed with Gold Glimmer Mist! I tell ya - I can't seem to use my Glimmer Mists enough!! Love that shimmer and shine it has!:)

Well I thank you kindly for stopping by today! Hope you day goes well! :)

Autumn Card Supplies: Stamps - Office Accoutrement & Doodle This by SU; Ink - Walnut Stain, Summer Sun, Yoyo Yellow, Close to Cocoa, Old Olive; Paper - Shimmer Yellow Bazzill, Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, Heidi Grace designs Pattern; Accessories - Copper Brads, Giant Rhinestone Brad, Copper Stickles, Gold Glimmer Mist, Prima Leaves, Ribbon, CM Oval Cutter, Labels One Nesties, Photo Corner Punch, Corner Rounder, Patterned Chipboard Tag; Techniques - Watercoloring, Sponging.